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How to Prioritize Fun during Tough Times

Feb 8, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In the last few months, Omicron has disrupted the holidays, work, school, events – practically every aspect of life. For most of us, this disruption has been hard to tolerate, after two long…
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Anger, and Caring for Those who Made Poor Choices, from MCN’s Dr. Madaras

Jan 25, 2022
By: Laszlo Madaras
By Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network Thirty years ago, on a late summer August evening during my trauma surgery rotation in 1991, I was called in to…
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How to Help Someone through the Uncertainty of Waiting

Jan 20, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
For most of us, this has been a year of uncertainty. Whether in our roles as a family member, friend, or clinician, we can take steps to be helpful to others who are living through the…
Building Access for Vaccines, Mental Health Needs, Health Education at Austin’s Ventanilla de Salud

Building Access for Vaccines, Mental Health Needs, Health Education at Austin’s Ventanilla de Salud

Jan 18, 2022
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In December, Roxana Pineda, MPH, Ventanilla de Salud (VdS) Coordinator and Health Network Associate for Migrant Clinicians Network, was getting ready to open yet another weekly vaccination event at…
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Clinicians Are Traumatized Because of COVID-19. Witness to Witness Helps.

Dec 20, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, MCN’s Director of Witness to Witness, Pamela Secada, MCN’s Witness to Witness Program Manager, and Jessica Calderón, Witness to Witness Program Associate Dr. Madaras…
How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships

How to Support Migrant Farmworkers' Mental Health: It Starts with Partnerships

Dec 16, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Jenna Feinauer, Migrant Clinicians Network and Dr Ivette Ruiz, MS-HSBP, Healing by Growing Farms LLC Although the frequency of mental illnesses among migrants varies, all migrants are subject…
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Pregnant Asylum Seekers Deserve Better, with Pinky Garcia

Dec 8, 2021
By: jsanne
At Health Network, we help hundreds of pregnant asylum seekers every year. Their health needs are often complicated, and getting care for them is frequently very difficult because they are so…
Cranky During the Holidays? Battling Unrealistic Expectations? How to Get Through the Holidays in One Piece, with Tips from Kaethe Weingarten

Cranky During the Holidays? Battling Unrealistic Expectations? How to Get Through the Holidays in One Piece, with Tips from Kaethe Weingarten

Dec 2, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Most of us have grown up with the idea that holidays are supposed to be joyous occasions and yet for many people that has not always been the case. And that was before COVID-19 changed so many…
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How to De-Escalate a Tense Interaction

Nov 18, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Recently, at a shopping mall in an urban city, three community outreach workers were standing near a table that had a colorful tri-fold with helpful, local information about how to get a vaccine…
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Eleven Tips for Sustainable Activism Without Getting Overwhelmed

Oct 20, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Albert Einstein said, “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” I hope I am not being presumptuous to add a corollary: “Not…
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Six Practical Steps to Prevent Child Suicide

Sep 23, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In the last few months, I have been shaken over the unprecedent tragic increase in child attempted and completed suicides among youth, even in cohorts of five- to 12-year-olds, one facet of a…
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10 Steps to Provide Trauma-Informed Care for Afghan Refugees

Sep 13, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are arriving across the US – and all of them will receive a health assessment in the coming weeks. Once they arrive on US soil, Afghan families are connected to…
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Empathy Can Be Debilitating. Here’s How to Move Empathy into Action.

Aug 26, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
I have always been haunted by certain kinds of injustices. Since the founding of Witness to Witness (W2W), there have been many issues that I cannot shake. In July 2019, I heard Columbia Law…
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It is Never Too Late to Soften Grief

Jul 21, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Kaethe Weingarten, PhD This month marks the 45th anniversary of my mother’s death and, finally, it feels different. I am carrying a piece of what pained me more lightly, which is making this…
Sister Zuly, Sister Antonia, and Sister Ana, three participants in Tu voz importa, received their cameras during the first workshop this week.

Tu voz importa: New Photovoice Project Equips Migrants with Cameras to Share Their Stories

Jun 17, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Sister Zuly, Sister Antonia, and Sister Ana, three participants in Tu voz importa, received their cameras during the first workshop this week. This week, 29 participants gathered for a beginner’s…
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MCN’s 5-Minute Poll: Inform Our Work, Voice Your Concerns, and Win a $25 Target Gift Card!

Jun 15, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
The Trump Administration was regularly cited as a root cause for migrant and immigrant patients to avoid getting the health care they needed – according to clinicians who have taken Migrant…
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"Yes, You ARE Entitled to Your Grief!": Looking at a Year of Many Losses, Many Kinds of Grief

May 12, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
There is no doubt that this past year has been one of grief for millions of people. I have provided online seminars and met with small groups on the topic of grief and heard hundreds of accounts…
Take MCN’s 2021 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Take MCN’s 2021 Poll: What Is Changing for Immigrant & Migrant Patients?

Apr 27, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
A recent study shows that, as former President Trump developed his presidential campaign’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, immigrants and migrants who lack authorization to live and work in the US began to…
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Nine Practices to Cope with a Looming Catastrophe

Apr 21, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
I’ve been told seven times that I had a life-threatening disease. Last Tuesday, I was told I might be going blind. This was shocking but not paralyzing. I did what I do. I got a second opinion on…
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Winter Streamline: Strategies for Addressing Intimate Partner Violence During the Pandemic

Mar 30, 2021
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
IPV and COVID-19 Intimate partner violence is the physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse, according to the CDC. A recent…
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750 COVID-19 Patients Later, A One-Year Milestone

Feb 2, 2021
By: Jannette Nuñez
By Dr. Laszlo Madaras We have now lived through a sad anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in the US, which was reported on January 20th, 2020. Just two weeks later, the first week of February…
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Witness to Witness: Aspects of Flourishing During the Holidays

Dec 22, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When the history of the last four years is written, I believe that ordinary people are going to be portrayed as the heroes of our time. Election officials, poll watchers, health care workers,…
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Women’s Conference Creates Virtual Safe Space for Austin-Area Latinas

Nov 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By Diana Cañas, MCN InternEarlier this month, the sixth annual Women’s Conference, hosted by the General Consulate of Mexico in Austin and Migrant Clinicians Network, was virtual. In total, 68 women…
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Celebrating Binational Health Week XX Virtually

Oct 19, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
By L. Roxana Pineda, MPH, Coordinator of the Ventanilla de Salud at Mexican Consulate in Austin, Migrant Clinicians NetworkEarlier this month, Migrant Clinicians Network and the Ventanilla de Salud…
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How Witness to Witness Is Helping Health Care Workers, Parents, and Others Address Emotional Responses to the Pandemic

Oct 7, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Although it may feel like the Coronavirus has been with us forever, in fact, for most people, the changes in their lives started in March, when the first emergency declarations occurred in…
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Witness to Witness Provides Rapid Psychosocial Support for Community Health Workers During COVID-19

Aug 25, 2020
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Migrant Clinicians Network’s Alma Galván MCH, MCN’s Senior Program Manager, approached Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, Director of the Witness to Witness (W2W)…